They Fear What They Don�t Understand

You may remember last week when I told you all about David Horowitz�s newest addition to the internets, �Discover the Network�, the site that makes it easy for you to find out the connections and the funding behind your favorite leftist.

Apparently, the left isn�t too happy about it, as was suspected.

As we expected, the left has not taken the news presented on our site well.

A pro-Islamic jihad writer for Alex Cockburn�s CounterPunch regards it naturally as �David Horowitz�s Smear Portal� and objects to our linking noble champions of social justice like himself with the �resisters� in the Sunni triangle he supports. But other, less politically deranged exponents of the leftist persuasion have also weighed in with objections to these inclusions. This article is by way of answering their complaints.

In the first place it should be pointed out that even though DiscoverTheNetwork consists of thousands of files, and is the product of years of work and decades of experience, these critics have launched their attacks within hours of its appearance on the web and before any serious person could have digested a fraction of its contents. It is difficult not to regard such attacks as politically motivated attempts to stigmatize, tarnish and yes, smear, the new website, and thus bury the enterprise in a way that would preclude having to deal with the information it displays.

Poor wittle wefties! Boo-hoo-hoho!

They don�t like being compared the jihadis they hope will win in Iraq. Maybe they should stop egging the jihadis on.

Oh and BTW loony left wing liberals, the longer I get called a fascist, the longer you get called a jihad supporter. Let�s keep this fight fair.